For those of us still impatiently waiting, what is your experience so far with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

—- I ordered just 2 hours in but the vendor I used sold out in 21 minutes. I just found out I also missed the restock, so hopefully some time next month.

  • cevn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    I have it. If i say Basement lights off, it takes 15 seconds and 70% of the time says Sorry I couldn’t understand. My kid thinks it is very funny tho.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Bummer. That’s one of my primary uses for Alexa, that I’d like to fix.

      • if I ask Alexa, it reacts right away, faster than walking over to the switch, especially when I specify a dimmer setting
      • if I ask Alexa on my thermostat, it’s damn slow to respond and sometimes misses, but the trick is leaving enough time after calling her name
      • cevn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I think hosting it somewhere other than the HA device may help with speed at least. I will have to try that to hopefully juice it up. No idea whether accuracy will improve.

        • AA5B@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          That will an important metric to determine. I know the doc said raspberry pi or similar are too slow but what local control is sufficient. Even among Pi’s there’s a large range of capability- I wonder how a Pi5 does or if it’s demanding of memory or something

  • Jakor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    Also sitting idly by wanting more people to talk about it! All I want it for is two features:

    -converting units of measure hands-free in the kitchen(27 teaspoons to fl oz, as an example) -check the weather for the day on my way out the door.

  • Nednarb44@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Tagging in on this too, I’m wondering what speaker people are combining this with for music streaming. I’ve heard on the early reviews that the speaker is fine for assisting, but not great for music

    • doodlebob@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I really want to see if someone comes out with a dock which has a better speaker. Something you can just pop the voice preview hardware on top of would be nice

      • Nednarb44@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Same or even if it makes sense (which honestly I think it absolutely does) at least have an option maybe after the preview edition to have one with a better speaker built in for more cost or something. Keep one as is if you only need the voice assistant, but one one be $20-40 more or something if you plan on using it for music too

  • barkingspiders@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    It’s great! I ran Mycroft for years and this is such a better experience overall. I really love the ability to create custom sentences to trigger whatever. There are features I’m still hoping for like some kind of reminder things so I can finally drop google assistant for good. This is a great product for enthusiasts and signals even better products in the future as the ecosystem matures. It’s a good time to be interested in voice assistants.